#Holodomor

[kazimirovich]

Months of Hunger - Endurance, Swelling, Death, by Yevhen Morozovsky, Oleg Staikov, and Oleksandr Lekomtsev, 1993

Holodomor Remembrance Day is November 24. 2023 marks the 90th year since the manmade famine that killed millions of Ukrainians. There's an archive of incredible artwork made in commemoration at the exhibition webpage Holodomor: Through the Eyes of Ukrainian Artists

#art #ukraine #holodomor #embroidery #photography #genocide

[syndromealice-blog]

Nationalism and nazism are different things. Ukrainian people are nationalists because our language was banned 136 times, we were almost destroyed by russians so many times, I can’t even count. We love our nation and we respect our culture. We try to survive under oppression and genocide. Our Ukrainian names were banned, our ancestors used to hide their children not to be killed. They went through hunger because soviet russians wanted to destroy us. My great grandfather saw his father died of hunger and rats ate his face. Yes, we love our country, our nation and our culture.

Nazism is destroying every other nation and seeing their nation as the best one and others are just under them. Sounds like russia, huh?

#ukraine #fuck russia #russia is a terrorist state #war in ukraine #holodomor

[ohsalome]

Taken in Donetsk in 1932-33, this photograph shows a “kulak” woman and her small child being evicted from their home in winter, dispossessed of everything but a small wagonload of their belongings pulled by hand behind them. Photo by Marko Zhelizniak.

This is the people tankies would want you to believe had the Marie Antoinette level of luxury. I wonder how many carts like those would be required to transport everything an average western tankie owns.

#ukraine #russia #ussr #history #holodomor #concentration camps #communism #famine #artificial famine #ukrainian history #joseph stalin

[thyinum]

Today is The Holodomor Remembrance Day 🕯️

Please, take some time to learn about this horrific crime that USSR committed against Ukrainian people in 1932 - 1933

Pictures by United24media

Also people of Kazakhstan experienced the same horror during 1930-1933 and it's called Asharshylyk. Some of the many ussr und russian's crimes against other nations.

#holodomor #ussr war crimes #russian war crimes #history of ukraine #ukraine #genocide of ukrainians #Asharshylyk

[stillunusual]

The word "Nazi" has a specific meaning to normal people, but to vatniks and tankies it has five basic meanings…. "anybody I don't like" "anybody who disagrees with me" "anybody who's a citizen of a country that Russia wants to invade" "anybody who opposed or simply didn't want to live in one of the tyrannical regimes I simp for" "anybody who was oppressed or killed by one of my favourite mass murderers" EDITED TO ADD: a tankie clown reblogged this post and made some typically asinine comments, so I thought I'd elaborate a little bit…. Tankie clown: @well1x is either referring to the fact that a lot of the "deaths under communism" listed in "the black book of communism" (which gives us the 10 million number or whatever) are quite literally Nazis in WWII, or they're referring to the fact that the only people who have been made to deliberately suffer under communism have been literal Nazis and fascists (generally speaking)

Joining the tankie cult requires you to live in a delusional clown world and believe in a shit ton of made up (and often contradictory) nonsense that requires a considerable repertoire of mental gymnastics (and lies) to maintain….

@well1x is literally trying to claim that all victims of communism are "nazis and facists" (sic), which - back in the real world - is a very obvious lie. It's also a blatant example of victim blaming. For example, most of the millions of men, women and children who were robbed, raped, imprisoned, sent to the gulags, tortured, starved to death, executed or ethnically cleansed by Stalin's henchmen were not Nazis or fascists, and many were innocent of any crime. The vast majority of the population in Stalin's Soviet Union also had to put up with crippling poverty and backwardness, the brutal suppression of their religious and community life and the total lack of freedom.

Based on his comment, I doubt if the tankie clown has ever read "the black book of communism" and I'm also not sure why he mentions this book in particular, when there are thousands of others that thoroughly document the numerous crimes of the regimes tankies insist on being the useful idiots for, and I think it's safe to assume that he hasn't read any of those books either (in fact, I doubt if he's ever read any book whatsoever)…. Tankie clown: Karina then shows an image of (presumably) some kids in the Ukraine famine. This is completely unrelated though because this famine was not manufactured by the USSR as say the Irish famine was by the English. Can't really attribute natural disaster to "muh communism"

Again - a typical genocide-denying tankie lie.

Tankies generally start by saying that the holodomor was Nazi propaganda, and when you debunk that they claim it was just a natural disaster, and when that doesn't work they make up some bullshit about how millions of farmers who barely had enough to live on were wealthy kulaks who burned crops and slaughtered cattle (and therefore deserved to die). And when you point out that the red army actually broke into their homes and confiscated all their grain, every cow or chicken or any other food they had, and that the Soviet authorities blacklisted villages, sometimes purely for containing relatives of Ukrainian independence fighters, and prevented the villagers from leaving, shot them for even collecting ears of grain from the fields, and watched them starve to death - tankies will just deny it, or laugh, or pretend that millions of holodomor victims were all rich landlords (and therefore deserved to die) etc etc….

I've also never seen English people pretending that the Irish famine never happened, or claiming that the victims deserved it, or that it was a good thing, or that Britain should re-conquer Ireland. On the other hand, it's difficult not to notice Stalin's smooth-brained groupies swarming all over social media every day denying or justifying the holodomor and other crimes of Russia and the USSR, and hoping that Russia not only re-conquers Ukraine but also Finland, the Baltics, Poland and other countries it has invaded and occupied in the past.

There's no point trying to reason with tankies using facts, logic or common sense - and appealing to their sense of decency while they're simping for their favourite mass murderers is a complete waste of time. Tankie clown: Karina then says @well1x is defending imperialism(???), defending ethnic cleansing (which …what??), dreaming about labour camps and mass shootings (for Nazis yes plz), and does not do any praxis (based on?).

Yep - most tankie clowns claim to be communists while simultaneously embracing Russian fascism, supporting the imperialism of Russia’s mega-rich ruling class, mindlessly repeating the Kremlin's propaganda and cheerleading their war crimes. These morons seem to have no idea that the Russian Federation is an empire made up of many conquered states that Russia invaded, occupied and colonised in the 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, or that Russia's war against Ukraine is a brutal attempt to reassert control over one of its former colonies. Russia's history of imperialism is at least as bad as that of any western country - and they're still doing it in the 21st century.

And I have seen countless examples of tankies speaking openly of wanting to mass murder their ideological enemies (or people they don't like) - because they also delude themselves into believing that if their revolutionary dreams ever came true, they'd be the ones doing the arresting and killing, despite the fact that in a real revolution they'd be about as much use as a fart in a spacesuit. They also have no idea how their small dick energy is somehow going to bring capitalism to its knees, which they'd inevitably end up crying about if it ever actually happened in reality.

Most of them are complete losers who spend the majority of their time sitting in their bedrooms huffing their own farts while reading tankie fan fiction online. Tankie clowns also claim to be against western imperialism and capitalism, despite living comfortable lives in western capitalist countries and owing everything they have to capitalism, including the freedom to use their capitalist smartphones or laptops to post anti-capitalist tantrums on social media platforms owned by western capitalists (thus helping these western capitalists to maximise their profits).

This is generally the sum total of a typical tankie's - ahem - "revolutionary" activity.

The vast majority of tankie clowns wouldn't dream of ever giving up the comforts of capitalism to move to one of the authoritarian shitholes they stupidly simp for, because then they might not be able to play their favourite capitalist video games anymore….

It's also a fact that Russia and the USSR have ethnically cleansed millions of people. Tankie clown: OP takes this insane train all the way to the station, and says @well1x is talking about anyone they don't like which… no. They're talking about the traditional Nazis.

No - they're falsely claiming that all victims of communism are Nazis and fascists. Learn to read…. Tankie clown: But also let's break this down. Who does OP think is being called a Nazi? "anyone I don't like" I mean I don't like Nazis, but I don't think everyone I don't like is one lmao. Funny tho, dude throws around the word tankie until it has no meaning.

In my experience, if you disagree with tankies about anything, they will pretty soon call you a fascist or a Nazi. It's they who throw around words like "fascist" and "Nazi" until they have no meaning (and most of them hilariously claim to be opposed to fascism while simultaneously supporting it - if it happens to be Russian). Tankie clown: - "anyone who disagrees with me" if you disagree that all human beings deserve to live a dignified life regardless of race/sex/gender identity/sexual orientation/age/disability/whatever then yeah you probably are a Nazi

Straw man. See above….

It's also amusing to observe the doublethink of somebody who apparently believes that "all human beings deserve to live a dignified life" while simultaneously thinking that when his favourite mass murderers oppressed and/or killed huge numbers of people it was perfectly OK…. Tankie clown: - "anyone who's a citizen of a country that Russia wants to invade" why the fuck are we talking about Russia? Believe it or not OP, USSR does not stand for "United Soviet States of Russia" lmaoooo

We're talking about Russia because most tankie clowns support Russian imperialism and mindlessly parrot the Kremlin's propaganda about how Russia's latest invasion of Ukraine is some sort of special de-nazification operation (see above). Tankies are generally so ignorant, gullible and stupid that they will literally believe anything the Kremlin tells them…. Tankie clown: - "anyone opposed or simply didn't want to live in one of the tyrannical regimes I simp for" tyrannical regimes lmao. These were only "tyrannical regimes" for people who actually were in fact Nazis.

Again - this is the kind of reality-denying nonsense I'd expect to hear from a tankie clown. One thing that really appalls people in the central and eastern European countries that experienced the reality of being occupied by the USSR and/or Russia, is the staggering ignorance and stupidity of western useful idiots who have no idea what it was actually like, and are not only dumb enough to join the tankie cult, but insist on westsplaining to the victims and their descendants about how the horrors they and their families suffered (usually for doing literally nothing) either didn't happen ("cuz the CIA made it all up") or claiming that they somehow deserved it ("cuz they were all Nazis/fascists/kulaks/slave owners").

Back in the real world, these were tyrannical regimes for tens of millions of ordinary people who had done nothing to deserve being subjected to tyranny…. Tankie clown: - "anyone who was oppressed or killed by one of my favourite mass murderers" yeah basically that's what I've been saying.

Thanks for proving my point….

And please note that smoking weed on your mum's sofa isn't actually going to bring the world revolution closer.

That was just a joke…. 🤣😂

#vatnik #tankie #tankie clownland #useful idiot #keyboard warrior #ignorance is strength #history #communism #ukraine #holodomor #soviet union #ussr

[maximumphilosopheranchor]

Hunger was far worse in the cities of Soviet Ukraine than in any city in the Western world. In 1933 in Soviet Ukraine, a few tens of thousands of city dwellers actually died of starvation. Yet the vast majority of the dead and dying in Soviet Ukraine were peasants, the very people whose labors had brought what bread there was to the cities. The Ukrainian cities lived, just, but the Ukrainian countryside was dying. City dwellers could not fail to notice the destitution of peasants who, contrary to all seeming logic, left the fields in search of food. The train station at Dnipropetrovsk was overrun by starving peasants, too weak even to beg. On a train, Gareth Jones met a peasant who had acquired some bread, only to have it confiscated by the police. “They took my bread away from me,” he repeated over and over again, knowing that he would disappoint his starving family. At the Stalino station, a starving peasant killed himself by jumping in front of a train. That city, the center of industry in southeastern Ukraine, had been founded in imperial times by John Hughes, a Welsh industrialist for whom Gareth Jones’s mother had worked. The city had once been named after Hughes; now it was named after Stalin. (Today it is known as Donetsk.)

Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

#Timothy Snyder #non-fiction #Ukraine #holodomor #USSR

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

Ukrainian refugees in Sydney, Australia demonstrating to raise awareness about Stalin's crimes. 28th June 1953.

They were attacked by local communists, as reported in The Canberra Times.

#ukrainian history #ukraine #commuism #vintage australia #vintage #communists #stalin #soviet union #ussr #black and white #australian history #1953 #genocide denial #holodomor #1950s

[jensweller]

russians destroying memorials to victims of Holodomor in temporarily occupied areas of Kherson region

#ukraine #russia is a terrorist state #stand with ukraine #russiainvadedukraine #help ukraine #ukrajina #ukraine war #kherson #holodomor

[yuliia-ozen]

Holodomor Museum keeps the memory of innocent Ukrainians killed with the man-made famine (known as Holodomor, the Great Famine of 1932-1933) organized by the soviet government. The number of the dead in the genocide varies from 4,5 to 10 million people, according to different researchers.

My late grandma remembered this horror for all her life. She was 8 that time. Her smaller sisters and brothers, 4 kids in our family, died from hunger in Holodomor. I remember that my grandma kept the packages full of dry bread in the nightstand till her last day.

90 years passed. The terrorist state of russia continues to commit its awful crimes, blackmailing the whole world with famine. Slogans like "Never again" are not working. They never did.

#ukraine #kyiv #kyiv ukraine #kyivphoto #memorial #museum #genocide #holodomor #russia is a terrorist state #russian crimes #russian invasion #standwithukraine #being ukrainian is #український tumblr #український тамблер

[thegirlwhohid]

When I was a child and visited my grandma in her village, there was a task I hated to do - picking up the fallen unripe apples and pears in her garden. It was boring, and the sun always was a little too bright, but every day my grandma asked me to do so. What was the point? She fed these fallen fruits to her cows, telling me that 'milk will be sweeter.'

Maybe, there was truth here, but not the whole.

The more significant thing was that she couldn't stand to leave food to spoil. Even tiny and sour unripe apples.

How could she, the woman who survived Holodomor in her childhood and the famine of 1946-1947 in her late adolescence? The woman who counted grams of bread to share with her mother and watched as her neighbors starved to death?

And now, when I read news about the destroyed harvest, I remember her keenly. Once I thought that our generation had to heal this trauma, but instead, it deepened and prolonged further.

I simply wish russians to burn in hell for every single grain they destroy now and then.

#personal #russian war crimes #holodomor #russian war in ukraine #russia must burn

[thelittleukrainianwell-armedgirl]

(c) Oleksiy Kustovsky

Holodomor Remembrance Day: Each year on the fourth Saturday of November Ukraine commemorates the victims of the mass artificial famines (Holodomor) of 1921-1923, 1932-1933 and 1946-1947, organised by the Soviet Union authorities, as a result of which the Ukrainian people lost millions of lives.

#ukraine #украина #україна #russia #россия #росія #ussr #stalin #kremlin #holodomor #famine #genocide #срср #ссср #сталин #сталін #голодомор #голод #геноцид #кремль #art #illustration #арт #иллюстрация #ілюстрація

[ohsalome]

#ukraine #russia #ussr #communism #holodomor #genocide

[vintage-ukraine]

Winter of 1933 by Mykola Bondarenko, 1993

#ukrainian art #ukraine #ukrainian #1990s #Holodomor #Mykola Bondarenko

[stillunusual]

Meanwhile in tankie clownland

It feels so edgy when you make fun of genocide and fantasise about persecuting people you don't like after the imaginary revolution that's never actually going to happen (and it helps you cope with being a total loser who never leaves his bedroom)....

#tankie #tankie clownland #tankie career goals #history #communism #soviet union #ussr #holodomor #ukraine #useful idiot #comedy #unintentional humour #saying the quiet part out loud #keyboard warrior #ignorance is strength

[lengthofropes]

I’d appreciate if you read and remember this:

Images source:

#holodomor #ukraine 🇺🇦 #genocide of ukrainians #remembrance day #Instagram

[snovyda]

Today is the Holodomor Rememberance Day, when we honor the memory of approximately 4 million Ukrainians starved to death in the soviet man-made famine of 1932-1933.

Millions of present day Ukrainians have family stories about relatives perishing, acts of cannibalism, or just insanity because of the famine.

The world chose to ignore it at the time, this crime (as well as all the similar soviet crimes) went unpunished. Those few who tried to shine a light on it (like the Welsh reporter Gareth Jones) were silenced or just not listened to.

And now we have yet another genocide happening.

Unpunished evil always only escalates.

#holodomor #ukrainian history #ukraine #genocide of ukrainians